Fifth report of the Egyptian Ornithological Rarities Committee - 2018 by the Egyptian Ornithological Rarities Committee: Frédéric Jiguet and Lukasz Lawicki (secretaries), Sherif Baha El Din (chairman), Andrea Corso, Pierre- André Crochet, Richard Hoath, Manuel Schweizer & Ahmed Waheed Released 25 th January 2019 Citation: Jiguet F., Lawicki L., Baha El Din S., Corso A., Crochet P.-A., Hoath R., Schweizer M. & Wahhed A. (2019) Fifth report of the Egyptian Ornithological Rarities Committee – 2018. The Egyptian Ornithological Rarities Committee (EORC) was launched in January 2010 to become the adjudicator of rare bird records for Egypt and to maintain the list of the bird species of Egypt. In 2018, the EORC was composed of 8 active voting members: Sherif Baha El Din, Andrea Corso, Pierre-André Crochet, Richard Hoath, Frédéric Jiguet, Lukasz Lawicki, Manuel Schweizer and Ahmed Waheed. Any observer recording a rare bird in Egypt (e.g. species on the EORC list or not listed in the updated national checklist) is invited to send details to the secretary (
[email protected]) to help maintain the official national avifaunal list. As stated in its first report (Jiguet et al. 2011), the EORC decided to use the checklist of the Birds of Egypt, as published in 1989 by Steve Goodman and Peter Meininger (excluding the hypothetical species) as a starting point to its work. Any addition to, or deletion from, this list will be evaluated by the EORC, as well as any record of species with less than 10 Egyptian records (see http://www.chn-france.org/eorc/eorc.php?id_content=4 for the full list of species to be documented) and any change in category (e.g.